How to Remove Shortcut Virus From USB and Memory Card

Hello everyone This article will help you to remove shortcut virus from pen drive/USB and Memory card and recover the files.

Pen drives and Memory cards are the most used devices to transfer data such as movies, songs , documents etc but often storage devices are infected by shortcut virus. If you connect your infected Pen drive to your system it will show files and folders having shortcuts. And in case you open the shortcut file or folder it would infect your whole system badly.
To remove the shortcut virus use the following steps.

Do not open the shortcut file or folder otherwise the virus could infect your system.

Step 5: Press Enter button. Keep your system up to date with the latest antivirus.
•Update your antivirus program at regular interval of time.•Do not ever open the shortcut or virus file with the extension file name.lnk . it could badly harm your computer and could infect your other removable devices too.
•Before opening any removable drive ( pen drive or SD card ) perform a deep scan of the removable drive.

Step 6: Go back to your Pen drive or memory card. You would see both your original files and shortcut files.Delete all the shortcut and unknown files and copy your original files and folders to another drive.

Step 7: At last format the Pen drive or Memory card. You have successfully remove shortcut virus from pen drive and recovered the infected files in the Pen drive.

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